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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
The story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones and the events leading up to one of the largest mass suicides in history.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tense, spiritual, emotional, sinister, crying, bizarre ...
Plot:
mass suicide, commune, manipulation, suicide, jungle, psychic, american abroad, mass death, cult leader, escapism, leadership, no survivors, poison, psychopath, rebellion, religions or cults, drug abuse, against humanity, religion, sect, murder, brainwashing, messiah, mind control, preacher ...
Time:
70s, year 1980, 60s, 1940s, 1930s, year 1978, year 1965 ...
Place:
south america, indianapolis indiana, guyana, africa, california, san francisco, caribbean ...
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Country: Mexico, Spain, Panama
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 121 min.
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Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his ...
Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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